+CvsGui : MacCVS and WinCvsK

Alexandre Parenteau, aubonbeurre@hotmail.com
 v1.0 30 October 1997 - A contribution of Strata Inc. 1997

This document describes both the MacCvs and WinCvs client. More informations can be found on the MacCVS home page and at the Cyclic Software home page.

· 1 About CVS
· 1.1 Where to find CVS ?
· 1.2 What is CvsGui ?
· 1.3 Why Cvs and CvsGui ?
· 1.4 Which are the features inside cvs that are not available in CvsGui ?
· 1.5 Which are the features inside CvsGui that are not available in cvs ?
· 1.6 What is the relationship with the "official" maintainers of cvs ?
· 1.7 What are the differences with jcvs, MacCvsClient, MacCvsPro ?
· 1.8 What about Rhapsody ?
· 2 The MacCVS Client
· 2.1 Introduction
· 2.2 What is inside
· 2.3 Binary and Text files
· 2.4 The "import" problem
· 2.5 Getting started
· 2.6 Hacking MacCvs
· 3 The WinCVS Client and Local
· 3.1 Introduction
· 3.2 What is inside
· 3.3 Binary and Text files
· 3.4 The "import" problem
· 3.5 Getting started
· 3.6 Hacking WinCvs
· 4 Summary of CvsGui commands
· 4.1 Cvs Main menu
· 4.2 Cvs Files menu
· 4.3 Cvs Folder menu
· 4.4 Preferences dialog
· 5 Note on dirty files
· 5.1 A little bit of history first 
· 5.2 Advantage of "Open Code Software"
· 6 Goodies with MacCvs/WinCvs
· 6.1 CWCVS : a cvs plug-in for Metrowerks (Mac only)
· 6.2 MPW tools (Mac only)
· 7 Annex
· 7.1 Environment variables used by MacCVS/WinCVS
· 7.2 A discussion about MacCVS architecture and the CR/LF problem